One Day That Shook the Communist World:The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its LegacyPaul LendvaiTranslated by Ann Major

Introduction 1Chapter 1: A Day That Shook the Communist World 5Chapter 2: The Road to Revolution 25Chapter 3: A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions 45Chapter 4: The Legend of the Corvinists 55Chapter 5: Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy 67Chapter 6: Deadlocked 75Chapter 7: A Turnaround with a Question Mark 83Chapter 8: The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant 89Chapter 9: The Dams Are Breaking 101Chapter 10: The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics 109Chapter 11: Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience 119Chapter 12: Double Dive into Darkness 127Chapter 13: The Puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma 139Chapter 14: Operation Whirlwind and Kádár's Phantom Government 149Chapter 15: The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy 163Chapter 16: The Second Revolution 173Chapter 17: The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory 185Chapter 18: Worldwide Reactions 195Chapter 19: The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors 211Chapter 20: 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat? 225Epilogue: Whose 1956? 241Acknowledgments 247Chronology 249Notes 255Bibliography 279Index 285